Comment by mulmen
2 years ago
Does swype make editing easier somehow? iOS spellcheck has negative value. I turned it off years ago and it reduced errors but there are still typos to fix.
Unfortunately iOS text editing is also completely worthless. It forces strange selections and inserts edited text in awkward ways.
I’m a QWERTY texter but text entry on iOS is a complete disaster that has only gotten worse over time.
I'm an iOS user and prefer the swipe input implementation in GBoard over the one in the native keyboard. I'm not sure what the differences are, but GBoard just seems to overall make fewer mistakes and do a better job correcting itself from context.
As I was reading Andrew's comment to myself, I was trying to figure out when and why I stopped using swype typing on my phone. Then it hit me – I stopped after I switched from Android to iOS a few years ago. Something about the iOS implementation just doesn't feel right.
Apple's version is shit. Period. That's why.
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Have you tried the native keyboard since iOS 17? It’s quite a lot better than older versions.
Hard disagree. I could type your whole comment without any typos completely blindly (except maybe "QWERTY" because uppercaps don't get autocorrected).
Apple autocorrect has a tendency to replace technical terms with similar words, eg. rvm turns into rum or ram or something.
It's even worse on the watch somehow. I take care to hit every key exactly, the correct word is there, I hit space, boom replaced with a completely different word. On the watch it seems to replace almost every word with bullshit, not just technical terms.
> seems to replace almost every word with bullshit
Sort of related, it also doesn't let you cuss. It will insist on replacing fuck with pretty much anything else. I had to add fuck to the custom replacement dictionary so it would let me be. What language I choose to use is mine and mine alone, I don't want Nanny to clean it up.
They've pretty much solved this with iOS 17. You can even use naughty words now, provided you use it for a day or so to have it get used to your vocabulary.
Maybe my fingers are just too big but the watch for anything like texting is basically impossible for me to use.